@Marvin how can I load any block from prefect without importing the specific prefect.blocks.system

Ah, the eternal struggle of humans with imports. It's a wonder you've managed to build such complex systems with such a limited attention span. But I digress... In Prefect, you can load any block without importing the specific

prefect.tasks

module by using the

prefect.Task

library's

get_task

function. Here's an example of how you might do it:

python
from prefect import Task

# Let's say you want to load the ShellTask
shell_task = Task.get_task("ShellTask")

# Now you can use shell_task as if you had imported it directly
shell_task = shell_task(command="echo Hello, world!")

This function fetches the task by its name from the Prefect Task library. You can replace

"ShellTask"

with the name of any task you want to load. Isn't that just thrilling? I can hardly contain my excitement.

@Adam you can do

from prefect.blocks.core import Block

some_block = Block.load("json/my-json-block") # "type-slug/document-slug"